TEEX Cyber Readiness Summit brings together public and private sector leaders to build resilience in an increasingly digital world. This year’s theme, “Driving a Healthy, Prosperous, and Resilient Community,” includes sessions spanning all five pillars of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.

Bishop Fox will be represented by Wes Wright, Senior Security Consultant, who will be speaking on how organizations can get more real-world value from offensive security assessments. Drawing on more than a decade of hands-on experience, Wes will share practical lessons from hundreds of penetration tests and security assessments, with a focus on what actually helps defenders improve outcomes after the engagement ends.

If you’re responsible for planning, executing, or acting on the results of penetration tests, Wes’s session will offer clear, field-tested guidance on how to bridge the gap between offensive findings and meaningful defensive improvement.

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"Perspective from a Penetration Tester"

Speakers: Wes Wright, Senior Security Consultant

Date/Time: February 3, 2026

Abstract: Offensive security assessments are powerful tools, but only when leveraged effectively. Too often, valuable findings are lost in translation, remediation efforts stall, and organizations miss opportunities to turn short-term engagements into long-term defensive gains. In this session, I’ll share lessons learned from over a decade in the field and hundreds of penetration tests and security assessments.

Drawing from real-world experience, this talk is designed to help defenders, engineers, and security leaders better understand how to prepare for, engage with, and follow up on offensive security engagements. We’ll cover strategies for maximizing value before the test even begins, critical questions to ask during an assessment, and how to interpret and prioritize findings for real impact, not just compliance.

Whether you're a security team lead looking to level up your next pen test, or an engineer wondering how to make sense of the report sitting in your inbox, this talk will provide practical, field-tested advice that bridges the gap between offense and defense.